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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

Me telling my friends about the time I received a $50 million buyout after losing back to back games as a 20-point favorite: yeah man it was crazy

My friend who knows I once recruited a QB named Ethan Grunkemeyer: was the Grunk there?

Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen.bsky.social · 1d

Penn State's attention at quarterback now turns to Ethan Grunkemeyer, the redshirt freshman from the Columbus suburbs. he's been limited to a couple cameos during his time with the Nittany Lions. that should change under the lights at Iowa
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Penn State expresses confidence in Ethan Grunkemeyer after Drew Allar injury: ‘We got 100% belief in him’

Penn State is poised to turn to redshirt freshman Ethan Grunkemeyer in the aftermath of starting quarterback Drew Allar's season-ending injury in Saturday's loss to Northwestern.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 2d

A random trans woman online who helped me through my cracking told me "transition has a gravity to it" and ain't that the truth

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the clinic I get my hormones from and they shrugged and said "you're going to have to do better than that," so I'm not sure it's fair to paint with that broad a brush

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Ben B. @abominaldrvibes.bsky.social · 3d

I want everyone out there who looks down on faith in general to take a very close look at all of the faith leaders who are working tirelessly and putting themselves on the line to make the world better. Not all christians are evangelical, many actually take the new testament to heart.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 3d

All y'all wanted to fuck around and stay home because Biden/Kamala weren't pure enough for you, now we're going to find out what it's like to not live in a democracy anymore

Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 3d

This is crazy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 5d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 7d

Have you ever told a joke?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8d

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

@Sec_Noem on X: Chicago, we’re here for you.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9d

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

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Sudden Deth ☠️ @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 11d

Smashing your tv up because you're mad the cartoon robot doesn't have a massive anatomically correct metal dick:

IT GETS WORSE...

Transformers Earthspark, a show for CHILDREN on
@Netflix
, also promotes the use of made-up pronouns like "they/them."

Parents, this is what your children are watching.

CANCEL NETFLIX

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 13d

So you want all kids on blockers til they're 18?

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 13d

In fact, I'm arguing the opposite! When people have strong feelings about their identities, they are usually right about it, so we should let them have the autonomy to decide. We already give that autonomy to cis kids unquestioningly, so we should give it to trans kids, too

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 14d

Wild that "Kids shouldn't be allowed to choose to go through trans puberty at 11 but should be allowed to choose to go through cis puberty" is the compromise position when you spell it out as it actually is

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 14d

I'm so glad you said this, because about 30 seconds ago, I published a newsletter piece detailing how conservatives have dump-trucked through all of the previously established common sense, nuanced, compromise positions on trans rights to get here: burns-notice.ghost.io/what-would-t...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14d

I love that there are millions of Americans over the age of forty who can be manipulated like 3rd graders in 1996 by deploying “that’s gay” in euphemism and that’s enough to make them think something is bad bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15d

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

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Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 15d

Gosh just wait til she gets to the end of the book

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15d

lot to unpack here

Paula White-Cain took a somewhat different position when defending the Trump administration’s border separation policy and detention of immigrants. According to her, it’s true that Jesus was a refugee because he lived in Egypt for three and a half years. “But it was not illegal,” she insists. “If he had broken the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.

Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 15d

I used to get real snooty about kids rushing the field/court, and then I remembered life is short and college is even shorter, so as long as it's safe let the kids have their fun

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 16d

Fans are storming the field so frequently in college football that it’s almost meaningless now. Wake Forest’s students are currently massing in the end zone in anticipation of a win over Georgia Tech. This is neither a rivalry game nor a historic upset.

Carrie's mulligans 🏳️‍⚧️ @cks490.bsky.social · 17d

These guys are such chickenshits. He's calling for *someone else* to go be violent. He's not doing it himself because he knows there might be consequences, be them legal or just getting his ass kicked. But writing about it makes him feel tough, so here we are. Pathetic little baby

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17d

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence

www.nytimes.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 17d

You love to see someone putting a Duke degree to good use

Jacob Rude @jacobrude.bsky.social · 18d

JJ Redick on ESPN LA on his desire to continue learning:

“Number one, I do have a general curiosity about stuff. I’m the type of person who spends an hour-and-a-half going down a deep, deep rabbit hole on ChatGPT. It used to be Wikipedia but now it’s my friend, Chat.”

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